Transformers 2

Not Sure wrote:

That's cool. I have been to see movies that I regretted (I will probably never forgive my buddy for making me sit through Tropic Thunder). And sometimes you just want to do something. Again, I'd rather go spend my ten bucks in a bar. That way I can usually at least talk to the person next to me.

I left your name off the quote because it's not just you, and I didn't really want to point fingers. It's a phenomenon of "I know this is bad, but I'm gonna see it anyway..." That's the part I don't understand. Maybe everybody has special circumstances.

Hey, I got this milk I found in the back of the fridge from March... uh, 2008. You want to try it? I bet it's fucking horrible.

lol, there was an SNL skit at one point on everyone's fascination with smelling the milk that's gone bad.

Yeah, at least with horror movies, I can chalk it up to bloodlust on why I want to see the movie, but with Transformers 2 and stuff like that, I don't know why i do it. I'm sure it's just to take a break from work cuz I NEVER see movies i know are bad in the evenings with my wife. She's all, "How about Alvin and the Chipmunks?". Me: NO.

Yeah, that SNL sketch was funny. Tom Hanks, I think.

I know what you mean about getting away from work. Some days I go out to lunch, even when I brought something, just to get a break...

Not Sure wrote:

Yeah, that SNL sketch was funny. Tom Hanks, I think.

I know what you mean about getting away from work. Some days I go out to lunch, even when I brought something, just to get a break...

Man you should ALWAYS go out to lunch (I don't mean going out to eat necessarily, but just getting out). I developped this stupid peptic(sp?) ulcer and my doctor said it was 100% from eating lunch at my desk. He says you don't digest well at all while at work cuz your brain isn't fooled into thinking it's time to eat, so it keeps its energy distribution focused on work instead of kicking your stomach into overgear.

So yeah, i go out everyday now and feel so much better and productive when i get back. And occassionally on tuesdays, i see a movie.

You have a great job if you can take a 3 hour lunch break to go see Transformers 2.

Shellhead wrote:

You have a great job if you can take a 3 hour lunch break to go see Transformers 2.

I'm actively seeking other work. I have a 2nd interview this week with a competing firm

I can't actually take a 3-hour lunch break. I just do it anyway. I'll just come in earlier, stay later, take short lunches the rest of the week, whatever. It all works out. If i'm busy, i don't do it.

When I was little, my friends and I used to play this game where the entire ST:TNG crew, a pretty good contingent of both G.I. Joe and Cobra forces, and everyone from Aliens, the Spawn comics, Congo (the toys were cheap), Independence Day, and Star Wars would compete in this Thunderdome style arena (which was the walkway to my friend's porch, surrounded by a yarn fence we'd rigged up).

It was a fight to the death, and once every minute, famous wrestler George "The Animal" Steele would drive Optimus Prime through the arena. Anyone who wasn't hanging from a piece of yarn would be run over and removed from the game permanently.

Even then, I remember thinking "This is a hell of a lot better than the Transformers cartoon." 20 years later, I still think it was. Same goes for the movie.

Another awesome quote from that review:

"Michael Bay understands that summer movies are about two things: male anxiety, and pure id. That's why he casts Shia LaBoeuf, that supreme avatar of pure male inadequacy, in the lead role."

So I changed my mind and will not see this movie. Maybe next Tuesday but I'm starting to doubt I'll be motivated enough to see it. I'll be really impressed with myself if I actually manage to skip this one.

I hope I get to see Food Inc. tonight. i hear great things

Stay strong, brother.

Here's a quote from someone who did see it (not the article at the top of the thread):

"The entire movie was like a woman with enormous breasts running in slow motion while behind her two blenders have non-consensual sex. Also the camera is spinning around."

Michael Phillips, film critic for the Chicago Tribune, said the Transformers 2 "is more like listening to rocks in a clothes dryer for 2½ hours."

Peter Travers called it a candidate for the worst movie of the decade.

I hope I get to see Food Inc. tonight. i hear great things

I'm looking forward to seeing this. I don't think it will tell me anything I don't already know, but I'm interested in seeing the presentation and I hope it makes people realize how horrible industrial, processed, and mass-produced food is. In the last year I've transitioned almost completely away from most manufactured foods (as much as reasonable and realistic) and I have to say that that aside from realizing how AWFUL a lot of that stuff tastes, I also feel a lot healthier. I'm eating so much less sugar, corn syrup, additives, preservatives, and other non-food junk than I ever have before.

Believe me...after six months you won't miss Doritos, Ho-hos, Diet Coke or any of that crap.

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Michael Barnes wrote:


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lol, ask Ken about derailing threads on this other website we used to frequent. We were the hijack specialists.


Good on ya for not eating manufactured foods. I eat pretty much everything but I want to see the movie cuz I hear it really presents it in a fascinating way (i.e. it's a really good documentary). So I'd like to see it but my wife doesn't wanna go cuz she's scared it will show how mechanical meat is processed (she's an animal lover and has trouble seeing that stuff). I saw this one news special on a horse slaughterhouse and haven't eaten horse since.


EDIT: oh, I better keep my posts relevant to the topic so.... and then the horse turned into a giant robot and said "NO ONE EATIN' MY RAWHIDE! SOMEONE CALL THE PO-LICE" and then turned into a Cadillac Escalade and drove off.

Michael Barnes wrote:

Peter Travers called it a candidate for the worst movie of the decade.

Not hardly. I sat through In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale because my friends wanted to watch it. Lucky it was DVD. The seven beers were needed. The first high-fantasy sword-and-sorcery movie with huge fucking battles and ZERO blood.

Not a drop.

And I'd wager that isn't even the worst, but pretty far down the sewer.

mrmarcus wrote:

Michael Barnes wrote:

Peter Travers called it a candidate for the worst movie of the decade.

Not hardly.

Yeah, I agree. Transformers seems like a fairly solid 2/10 to me. It has some enjoyable parts. It seems like Megan Fox alone would be worth 2 points. I've seen lots of movies this decade that are CLEAR 1/10's or worse.

My top three nominations for worst movies of this decade:

The Unborn (worst movie so far of 2009)
Shutter (worst movie of 2008)
Awake (worst movie of 2007, omg so bad)


I think I gotta give it to Shutter for the worst movie of the decade. That was just total trash.

Worst of the decade?

SON OF THE MASK (2005)

Ugh... it was just... SO BAD. I still have a hard time believing how horrible it was. I am baffled that this movie showed in theatres at all and wasn't straight to DVD.